Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:02:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Bongert <dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu> To: "Charles A. Peters" <cpeters2@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: getting @home to work with FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.990927110255.dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <000501bf0904$ca6fb1a0$0700a8c0@stealth.xxx>
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That may vary depending on whose @home you use. I use Bresnan@home (a subsidary of TCI, and probably uses their rules), and I am only allowed dynamic IP addresses. The IP address I am given doesn't change much, so I was able to set up my computer as if it were static. Besides, I have a dynamic DNS setup for my computer, so I can just ssh mydomainname.myip.org, instead of having to remember computer-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com. By the way, the DHCP pages I found were primarily RoadRunner-centric, but I did find a note on @home (but that didn't help). On 27-Sep-99 Charles A. Peters wrote: > I know that this does not answer your question, but I have @home > service, 3 > static IP addresses, and several machines connected to the internet > via a > dual-hommed gateway. I find that it is convenient to be able to have > a > static address in the event that I need to telnet or pcanywhere into > one of > my boxes from another location. You can request a static ip address > for no > additional cost from the @home people. > > Charles > > cpeters2@home.com > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dan Bongert >> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 11:34 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: getting @home to work with FreeBSD >> >> >> I'm a new user of FreeBSD (convert from Linux), and installed >> 3.3-RELEASE last week. I'm a @home subscriber, and am attempting to >> get >> FreeBSD working with DHCP. >> >> I found a couple of web sites detailing how to set it up, but can't >> get >> it to work. No matter what I try (detailed dhclient.conf, >> empty dhclient.conf, dhclient.conf with only send "hostname-a") I >> can't >> seem to find the DHCP server. It looks like the DHCP client >> broadcasts, >> but doesn't find anything. >> >> Assuming I have a static IP address, and manually filling in the IP >> address, DNS, gateway, etc, works fine, but I hear that @home is >> going >> to start decreasing the lease time, and making their service more >> dynamic. >> >> I just saw a couple of people mention that they used @home, so I >> thought I'd ask. -- Dan Bongert dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu SSCC Unix System Administrator (608) 262-9857 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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